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 Jtypical soils. 



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With them may be compared No. 9, a much lighter type, a barley rather than a wheat soil, 

 but with a good reputation for fruit. It may be regarded as approaching the limit, as regards 

 lightness, for a really fine soil. 



Xo. 7 is a heavy pasture of great fertility ; it will grow fine wheat crops, but the absence 

 of coarse sand and the large proportion of silt and clay renders it liable to glaze and cake on 

 the surface. 



No. 8 is an excessively heavy London clay soil, with the highest proportion of clay of any 

 British soil within the writer's experience. Very rarely do soils so heavy as this remain in 

 arable cultivation. 



No. 10 represents a soil at the other extreme, a barren heath clothed only with heather and 

 bracken. Two-thirds of the soil consists of coarse sand, and the clay is entirely absent. 

 Again, the soil is almost devoid of soluble material. 



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